A Race for Empire: And Other True Tales of the Northwest (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0260858625
- ISBN-13
- 9780260858627
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-12
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
Description
Excerpt from A Race for Empire: And Other True Tales of the Northwest It was a veritable no man's land, claimed alike by England and America, and held by both under a truce of joint occupation. England asserted title south to the forty-sixth parallel, a claim which, if sustained, would have given that country all of the present State of W'ashington and the greater part of the State of Oregon. In a feeble way the United States claimed title north to the line of fifty-four forty, but our statesmen were apathetic, and some of them were clamoring for abandon ment of everything west of the Rocky Moun tains. Thus drifted affairs until the summer of 1842. Lord Ashburton for Eng land, and Daniel Webster for the United States, then negotiated a treaty defining the boundary line between the United States and Canada. They agreed on the forty-ninth parallel as far west as the Lake of the Woods; beyond that the treaty of joint occupation was con tinned. England was hiding her time. She had her greedy fur hunt ers in the Oregon Coun try, and they were coaxing in settlers from the Red River Valley of Canada. The United States had a little mis sion band, but what were these, thought England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
